Captain Nathaniel Lord Thompson:. of Kennebunk, Maine and the Ships He Built 1811-1889

Boston: Charles Lauriat Co. for the Penobscott Marine Museum, 1937. First Edition/Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine DJ(s) and Very Good+ Slipcase. First Edition/Limited Edition. Hardcover. Publication Number 1 of the Museum. Includes a list of vessels built by Captain Thompson. A nearly pristine copy of this noted volume. Tight, bright and unmarred. Blue cloth DJ shows hint of sunning at spine, else bright and clean; glassine DJ toned but present and intact. Blue paper slipcase shows light shelf wear, sunning at fore-edge, top and bottom, very minor split at bottom edge, else bright and clean. Quarterbound, white cloth spine, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, pictorial endpages, teg, frontispiece. 8vo. xxi; 140pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Fold-out plate. Limited edition "of 121 Copies Printed on Utopian deckle-edge white laid paper